It's almost like Sony doesn't want to have a PlayStation division anymore.

Notably, the clause is conspicuously absent from terms governing Mexico, the United States, and several other regions, meaning players there are not currently subject to the policy. By contrast, the provision has been enforceable in the United Kingdom and various European countries for years, though it largely escaped public notice until the recent physical-format debate brought renewed scrutiny to Sony’s digital practices.

I logged into steam after like 15 years and it still worked.

how is that even legal?

we need better consumer protection for digital purchases.

What an excellent way to convince aging gamers to just never buy from Sony again.

i bought portal2 when it came out on ps3.... it also let me set up a steam account through my ps3, because that was going to be the next big thing (this was before ps+ and multiplayer was still free)

12 years later i got a PC, i downloaded steam.... and when i logged in, there was portal2 waiting for me to download it.

sony can go fuck themselves

Non-spamblog version of the same article: https://www.levelup.com/en/news/playstation-could-permanently-delete-your-psn-account-and-digital-library-for-this-reason/

My biggest mistake was buying a PS4 instead of jumping to PC a generation earlier than I eventually did.

Sony’s reminding me of their “599 US DOLLARS” era very heavily lately. Gaming has been in such a rough spot lately, it’s a shame.

I haven't logged in since my PS3 died a couple years ago.

Tried to log in to their website with my saved password. It said the password was wrong. I reset my password, entered the same one that I previously used, fully expecting it to give the frustrating answer "Previous passwords can't be re-used." But no, it let me use it! Weird.

There are doing a speed run no one wants.

I've been a hardcore PlayStation guy since I was about 9 when I got my first console the PS1.

Crash team racing is better than Mario Kart 64

Spyro the Dragon is the best 3D platformer of the late 90s.

I've had a PS2.. That still works 22 years later.

I was in the great wars of PS2 vs XBOX.

I like Halo 1 and 2, I like Killzone 1, 2 and 3.

I was there at the beginning.

I was there when Sony moved their PlayStation HQ from Japan to America.

I was there when the quality of good JRPGs and adventure games plummeted so we could be fed a new call of duty and FIFA every year.

These days I'm PC, PS5 and switch. I will not be buying a PS6 or a Switch 2.

It should be mentioned that.. I'd rather throw myself down a cliff than buy an Xbox.

My decade old Sony boycott looks more & more prescient every week.

Seems illegal.

ill be sure to tell my siblings to sign into my account every 3 years. gee thanks sony. whats the fucking point of this

Huh. That's actually a little disappointing. I have a couple of exclusives on there that I would prefer not to lose. But I also no longer own any modern PlayStation consoles, nor am I likely to in the future. So trying to decide if this is going to be the thing that makes me leave Sony for good, or if I should just make a little effort to login from time to time.

It's updates like this that make me wish for a 'git diff' of those changes.

Wow this seems like a gross overstep of boundaries . Fuckin, oh well i guess

Note that technically the agreement says that Sony reserves the right to delete the account after 36 months, not that they'll actually do it. It might "just" be a stupid bit of legalese to cover Sony's ass in case they're required to delete older data.

Of course the idea is worrying nonetheless.

This is for UK and EU due to GDPR that requires companies delete all user data for inactive accounts. It's a unintended consequences of the law and other gaming companies including Xbox have similar clauses.

https://playfront.de/en/psn-kontoloeschung-sony-loescht-inaktive-accounts-asutomatisch-nach-3-jahren/

"How do we squander 3 decades of consumer goodwill in a week and a half?" Seriously wtf are you doing Sony

This is sad just because of the old names disappearing. A friend of mine killed themselves back in 2017, but we played a few games on ps4 together online back in the day. So I still scroll down to look at that old gamer tag every now and then. Its sad to think of that going away.

Is this an attempt to temporarily artifically inflate unique account activity metrics for self-congratulation and shareholder ego stroking?

(This month X millions players logged in to play games, which is a significant increase from before!)